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Deannaf
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      05-11-2004
Would like to do the critical updates,but 5 hours is too long.
 
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Kari [MSFT]
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      05-11-2004
Try doing them one at a time or try making a note of the updates you need then download them from the catalog (see http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=323166 for details of how to use the catalog if you're not already familiar with it) and install when offline
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Would like to do the critical updates,but 5 hours is too long.
 
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Robert Aldwinckle
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      05-11-2004
"Deannaf" <> wrote in message
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> Would like to do the critical updates,but 5 hours is too long.


Do one update at a time. Uncheck the ones you will defer.

If you are far behind in your maintenance I suspect that installing them
backwards chronologically might even be a good idea. Provided each
update is designed not to regress later updates that approach could
reduce the total number of updates you would have to download,
(e.g. ones which have been superseded would stop being offered
by the time you got down to them.) At worst I would expect you might
end up downloading some old updates unnecessarily and getting some
(often cryptic) messages to tell you that they were no longer needed.

The only real problem that I can see with such an approach is that
that combination of fixes may not have been given as much testing.


HTH

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